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Preface

Introduction

Control and Eradication

Brucellosis

Johne’s Disease

Pseudorabies (PRV)

Tuberculosis

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

Scrapie

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)

Poultry
National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP)

Avian Influenza (AI)

Exotic Newcastle disease (END)

Equine Disease

Aquatic Animal

Aquatic Animal National Health Plan

Aquatic Animal Health Activities

Animal Health Emergency Management

Animal Health Emergency Management

Emergency Response Structure

National Response Framework (NRF)

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

National Animal Health Emergency Management System (NAHEMS)

Foreign Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Plan (FAD PReP)

FAD Recognition and Initial Response

National Animal Health Emergency Response Corps (NAHERC)

Notifiable Diseases and Conditions

WOAH and International Standards

Cleaning and Disinfection

Importance of Cleaning & Disinfection

Cleaning

Disinfection

Regulation of Disinfectants

Safety

Disease Surveillance

Laboratory Submissions

Animal Movement

Interstate Regulations

Interstate Movement of Cattle, Horses, Swine, Sheep and Goats

Issuing Interstate Animal Movement Documents

International Animal Movement

Issuing International Health Certificates (IHCs) for Live Animal Movement

Common Problems Observed on Certificates for Live Animal Movement
Animal Identification 

Animal Identification

Cattle Identification

Swine Identification

Equine Identification

Sheep and Goat Identification

Fowl Identification

Compliance and Regulations

Appendix

A: 9 CFR PARTS 160, 161, and 162

B: APHIS VS District Offices

C: State Animal Health Officials

D: Forms

E: Other Organizational Information with Contact Points

F: Web Sites

G: Equine Teeth and Aging

The Office International des Epizooties (OIE) was established in Paris, France, in

1924 with the signing of an international agreement by 28 countries. In 2003 the

Office became the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH), and as of May

2022, it will no longer be known as OIE but WOAH. As of 2011, the WOAH has 178

Member Countries and Territories, each of which is represented by a delegate who,

in most cases, is the Chief Veterinary Officer of the country.

The WOAH is the intergovernmental organization responsible for improving animal

health worldwide and has six primary missions:

1. to ensure transparency in the global animal disease situation; 

2. to collect, analyze, and disseminate scientific veterinary information; 

3. to encourage international solidarity in the control of animal diseases; 

4. to safeguard world trade by publishing health standards for international trade

in animals and animal products (within its mandate under the World Trade

Organization, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement); 
5. to improve the legal framework and resources of national veterinary services;

and 

6. to provide a better guarantee of the safety of foods of animal origin and to

promote animal welfare through a science-based approach.

One of WOAH’s important missions is to improve knowledge, as well as the

transparency, of the world animal health situation. Members are obligated to report

disease events of animal health significance. To achieve this, the WOAH developed

and manages a web-based reporting system called the World Animal Health

Information System (WAHIS). Through the WAHIS Members must report to the WOAH

all notifiable terrestrial and aquatic animal diseases detected within their respective

territories. This information then becomes immediately available to the world so that

countries can take any necessary preventive action. As an WOAH Member the

United States takes its commitment to disease reporting seriously and responsibly.

WOAH maintains a list of notifiable diseases that is updated annually.

The following diseases are currently included in the list.

Terrestrial Animal Diseases

Multiple Species Diseases

Anthrax

Aujeszky’s disease (pseudorabies)

Bluetongue

Brucellosis (Brucella abortus)

Brucellosis (Brucella melitensis)

Brucellosis (Brucella suis)

Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever

Echinococcosis/hydatidosis

Epizootic haemorrhagic disease

Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern)

Foot-and-mouth disease

Heartwater

Japanese encephalitis

Leptospirosis

New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)
Old world screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana)

Paratuberculosis

Q fever

Rabies

Rift Valley fever

Rinderpest

Surra (Trypanosoma evansi)

Trichinellosis

Tularemia

Vesicular stomatitis

West Nile fever

Cattle Diseases

Bovine anaplasmosis

Bovine babesiosis

Bovine genital campylobacteriosis

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Bovine tuberculosis

Bovine viral diarrhea

Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

Enzootic bovine leukosis

Hemorrhagic septicemia

Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis

Lumpy skin disease

Theileriosis

Trichomonosis

Trypanosomosis (tsetse–transmitted)

Sheep and Goat Diseases

Caprine arthritis/encephalitis

Contagious agalactia

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia

Enzootic abortion of ewes (ovine chlamydiosis)

Maedi–Visna
Nairobi sheep disease

Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)

Peste des petits ruminants

Salmonellosis (S. abortusovis)

Scrapie

Sheep pox and goat pox

Equine Diseases

African horse sickness

Contagious equine metritis

Dourine

Equine encephalomyelitis (Western)

Equine infectious anemia

Equine influenza

Equine piroplasmosis

Equine rhinopneumonitis

Equine viral arteritis

Glanders

Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis 

Swine Diseases

African swine fever

Classical swine fever

Nipah virus encephalitis

Porcine cysticercosis

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome

Swine vesicular disease

Teschovirus encephalomyelitis (under study)

Transmissible gastroenteritis 

Avian Diseases

Avian chlamydiosis

Avian infectious bronchitis
Avian infectious laryngotracheitis

Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum)

Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma synoviae)

Duck virus hepatitis

Fowl cholera

Fowl typhoid

Highly pathogenic avian influenza in birds

Low pathogenicity notifiable avian influenza in poultry

Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease)

Marek’s disease

Newcastle disease

Pullorum disease

Turkey rhinotracheitis

Lagomorph Diseases

Myxomatosis

Rabbit hemorrhagic disease

Bee Diseases

Acarapisosis of honey bees

American foulbrood of honey bees

European foulbrood of honey bees

Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida)

Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees

Varroosis of honey bees 

Other Diseases

Camelpox

Leishmaniosis

Aquatic Animal Diseases

Fish Diseases
Epizootic hematopoietic necrosis

Epizootic ulcerative syndrome

Gyrodactylosis (Gyrodactylus salaris)

Infectious hematopoietic necrosis

Infectious salmon anemia

Koi herpesvirus disease

Red sea bream iridoviral disease

Spring viremia of carp

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia

Mollusc Diseases

Infection with abalone herpes-like virus

Infection with Bonamia exitiosa

Infection with Bonamia ostreae

Infection with Marteilia refringens

Infection with Perkinsus marinus

Infection with Perkinsus olseni

Infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis

Crustacean Diseases

Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)

Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis

Infectious myonecrosis

Necrotising hepatopancreatitis

Taura syndrome

White spot disease

White tail disease

Yellow head disease

Amphibian Diseases

Infection with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Infection with ranavirus